Valve confirms Nvidia's 580 driver branch breaks Steam Link VR on Linux

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by UploadVR / Road to VR / MIXED at 30 Sept, 11:51 UTC

Valve has confirmed that Nvidia's 580 driver branch cannot run Steam Link VR on Linux, calling it "the NVIDIA 580 series driver incompatibility" in a reply on its own SteamVR-for-Linux tracker on September 28. Seven owners have posted in the thread since it opened on September 7, on cards ranging…